On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:45:20AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > So the logic there would be: > > if there's an upstream tag, then > > generate an .orig.tgz > > if there's a pristine-tar info, > > hax0r it to be pristine > > generate a .diff.gz > > if the .diff failed goto bailout > > generate a .dsc containing the orig and diff > It's not generally possible to generate a .diff.gz that expresses all > the changes that might be in a git repository.
Right, but it is possible to detect that, and bailout to generating a .tar.gz, no? > > Repo formats that bzr in etch can unpack could be denoted by > > Source-Depends: dpkg-bzr (>= 0.11) > I was thinking about Source-Depends too, the main problem seems to be > that it would need to be supported in apt-get source too. I wonder if > we could just use build-depends. apt-get source support could just be a warning "This package cannot be unpacked without ________ installed". Using Build-Depends: would make it pretty complicated to know which bits were needed for unpacking, if that's all you're trying to do. Cheers, aj
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